Freethinker Quotes - Page 3

• Because the only people for me are the mad ones.

  Jack Kerouac

  Hippie, Yawning, People

  On the Road pt. 1, ch. 1 (1957)

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• I would encourage the youth to get in to their bodies as much as possible through sport or exercise, and to embrace their uniques expressions as individuals and freethinkers. They are lucky enough to grow up in a time where the individual is celebrated - it is their duty to find their voices so that they can be heard. It is time to practice compassionate communication.

  Leilani Bishop

  Sports, Growing Up, Communication

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• People stopped calling themselves Freethinkers because it was so specifically German and anything German was terribly unpopular because of the two world wars. My family became Unitarians instead - it's the same sort of thing.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Two, People

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• By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Book, Sixteen

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.220, Pan Macmillan

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• A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.

  Augustus William Hare

  Thinking, Lawyer

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.468

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• It is no credit to the orthodox that they do not now believe all the absurdities that were believed 150 years ago. The gradual emasculation of the Christian doctrine has been effected in spite of the most vigorous resistance, and solely as the result of the onslaughts of freethinkers.

  Bertrand Russell

  Christian, Believe, Years

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Why I Am Not a Christian”, p.60, Lulu Press, Inc

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• How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Faith, Thinking

  "The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press, p.104, 1989.

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• The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve.

  Albert Einstein

  Ideas, Aliens, Free Thinkers

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.341, Princeton University Press

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• The Treatise of the Three Impostors is a book that enjoyed centuries of notorious nonexistence until (as Voltaire would say) it became necessary to invent it. Georges Minois writes with empathy, erudition, and a novelist's sense of buildup and timing, weaving in the parallel story of Europe's courageous freethinkers. In the face of today's social and even legal pressures against criticizing religion, it is good to see an honorable French tradition asserting itself.

  Joscelyn Godwin

  Book, Writing, Europe

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• At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at one time a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conception of religion, law, and morality, who reached freethought only after conflict and difficulty. But now a new type of born freethinkers has appeared, who grow up without so much as hearing that there used to be laws of morality, or religion, that authorities existed. They grow up in ideas of negation in everything - in other words, utter savages.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Atheist, Growing Up, Men

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